And my God shall supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Parallel translations
- WEB My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
- KJV But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
- BSB And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
- NASB And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
- NLT And this same God who takes care of me will supply all your needs from his glorious riches, which have been given to us in Christ Jesus.
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Quick answer
Paul assures the Philippians that God will supply all their needs from his glorious riches in Christ. The giving church can trust God to provide for them.
Overview
In response to their generosity, Paul promises that the God they served will meet their every need from his inexhaustible 'riches in glory.' The supply comes 'in Christ Jesus,' the channel of all God's blessings. This is not a blanket guarantee of wealth but the assurance that the giving God amply provides for his trusting people.
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Cross-references · 40
- 2 Cor 9:8–11And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
- Ps 84:11For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
- 1 Pet 5:10But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
- Ps 23:1–5A Psalm by David. Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
- 1 Tim 6:17Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
- Mic 7:7But as for me, I will look to Yahweh. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.
- Prov 3:9–10Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
- Luke 12:30–33For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
- Deut 8:3–4He humbled you, and allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know; that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of Yahweh’s mouth.
- Mal 3:10Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
- Prov 11:24–25There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
- 2 Sam 22:7In my distress, I called on Yahweh. Yes, I called to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry came into his ears.
- Ps 36:8They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
- Neh 9:15and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
- Eph 3:16that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;
- Col 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.
- Col 1:27to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory;
- Ps 41:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Blessed is he who considers the poor. Yahweh will deliver him in the day of evil.
- Ps 112:5–9It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
- Rom 8:18For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
- Eph 1:7in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
- Eph 3:8To me, the very least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
- Ps 130:7Israel, hope in Yahweh, for with Yahweh there is loving kindness. With him is abundant redemption.
- Rom 9:23and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
- Ps 104:24Yahweh, how many are your works! In wisdom have you made them all. The earth is full of your riches.
- Gen 48:15He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
- 2 Cor 4:17For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;
- 2 Chr 18:13Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, what my God says, that will I speak.”
- Rom 2:4Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
- Eph 2:7that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus;
- Eph 1:18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
- Dan 6:22My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt.
- Rom 11:33Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
- 1 Th 2:12to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.
- 2 Cor 12:21that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness and sexual immorality and lustfulness which they committed.
- 1 Pet 5:1Therefore I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and who will also share in the glory that will be revealed.
- John 20:27Then he said to Thomas, “Reach here your finger, and see my hands. Reach here your hand, and put it into my side. Don’t be unbelieving, but believing.”
- John 20:17Jesus said to her, “Don’t hold me, for I haven’t yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’”
- Neh 5:19Remember to me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.
- Phlm 1:4I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,
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